Nick Bogaty, Head of Digital Publishing at Adobe, discusses how mobile content marketing is essential to engage stakeholders both inside and outside of the organization – and in 2014 the trend is only expected to accelerate. Learn how to take advantage of these “mobile moments” through apps, as well as where the Digital Publishing Suite platform is headed in the future.

Nick Bogaty, Head of Digital Publishing at Adobe, discusses how mobile content marketing is essential to engage stakeholders both inside and outside of the organization – and in 2014 the trend is only expected to accelerate. Learn how to take advantage of these “mobile moments” through apps, as well as where the Digital Publishing Suite platform is headed in the future.

In this session, we explore the challenges and opportunities of the new digital world, and the essential ingredients needed to achieve a customer-centric approach, used by a global Consumer Goods company in their digital transformation journey.

This session is for analysts, data-driven marketers, and business executives. You need to be able to effectively communicate your findings to key stakeholders and so it's essential that you tap into the art of storytelling because stories motivate people.

See how Buffalo Bills, the American football team, created an essential game day app with Digital Publishing Suite. The Buffalo Bills Touch app engages fans with the team brand and delivers a high-impact fan experience through video, social media and more. View how the app extends immersive multimedia content to fans far-and-wide, as well as how it drives results for the team.

Watch how the Auto Smart Tone tool in Photoshop Elements 12 corrects the tonal values of your photograph. See how you can modify the photograph, based on the tonal values available on different parts of the image. Also, check out how the the tool learns from previous actions and makes recommendations about tonal corrections to similar photos. Find out more in the Photoshop Elements 12 Essential Training course with Jan Kabili.

Adding alternative text and a tooltip to images has several benefits. A tooltip is a usability aid, while alternative text will appear if the image cannot be displayed, and is an accessability tool for visually-impaired visitors to your site. Finally, adding this important information to your images is essential for good Search Engine Optimization. Taken from Train Simple's Adobe Muse CC course.

Adobe Product Manager, Vikram Verma, discusses why responsive design by itself is not the "holy grail" to solve all of tech comm industry problems. Vikram observes that more information is consumed by mobile phones, and desktop consumption is decreasing. The attention span of mobile users is half that of desktop users. It is essential to cater to mobile users. Responsive design with server-side components can allow you to create categories for output devices (e.g. tables, mobile, desktop) and optimize content to create separate responsive design websites. Once you have that, you integrate them all with server-side components like JavaScript which will direct the user to the appropriate version of the website to consume content appropriately.

Photoshop is not just for photos! This lesson shows how to use the essential Photoshop tools for working with video files. Learn to benefit from powerful lens correction and special effects features that are only possible with Photoshop.

Scaling an image up excessively can result in a pixelated look. In this video, learn some techniques for working with image size and resolution in Muse. Topics include DPI, resampling, and previewing modified images. Learn more from the full course on lynda.com.

This video shows the steps involved with creating a form in Muse. First, you'll learn about form options and the various form fields. Then, you'll see how to build out your form, adjust its appearance, and align form fields with guides. Finally, you will preview the finished form on a live website. Learn more from the full course on lynda.com.

Learn how to change the appearance of objects in your site using the States panel. Explore the four states--Normal, Rollover, Mousedown, and Active--and see how to implement each. Learn more from the full course on lynda.com.

Although the rectangle is one of the most common web design elements, Muse makes it easy to incorporate various kinds of shapes in your site's layout. In this video, you'll learn how to round corners on a rectangle, adjust shapes that contain text, and create circles. Learn more from the full course on lynda.com.

When you're working on a complex project in Muse it's easy to inadvertently apply formatting to the wrong object. In this movie, explore the Selection Indicator, which shows the objects you currently have selected. Learn more from the full course on lynda.com.

In order to work quickly in Muse it's helpful to become familiar with its various tools. In this movie learn how to use the Selection, Crop, Type, and Zoom tools. Learn more from the full course on lynda.com.

Master Pages in Muse allow you to ensure consistency across multiple pages, particularly for repeating content. In this video, you'll learn how to set up Master Pages in Muse. Learn more from the full course on lynda.com.

In this video, learn how to structure your site's pages by creating a site map in Muse. Topics covered include master pages, parenting one page to another, and adjusting the page display in the Plan view. Learn more from the full course on lynda.com.

This video offers a high-level look at the differences between print and web design. Topics discussed include navigation considerations, document construction, and accessibility options. Learn more from the full course on lynda.com.

Learn to add effects and shapes to your compositions in After Effects, and get tips on how these elements can enhance a project and help draw the viewer's eye to specific areas of your scene.
Excerpted from: After Effects CC Essential Training

The Render Queue in After Effects lets you create self-contained project files for sharing with others. Find out how to use the Render Queue to create and export files.
Excerpted from: After Effects CC Essential Training

Keyframes are the fundamental tool for creating animations in After Effects. In this introductory tutorial, you'll learn to create keyframes, place keyframes on the Timeline to make an animation, and test and adjust the animation playback.
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Explore how to add and adjust text elements to your compositions in After Effects. You'll learn how to set text as editable, adjust character formatting, and fade in your text on a clip.
Excerpted from: After Effects CC Essential Training

Modifying the order in which you apply effects to your projects in After Effects can drastically change its look. In this tutorial, you'll explore the different kinds of effects you can apply and learn how to adjust the order of effects.
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Keyframes are the primary mechanism for creating animation in After Effects. Discover how to add, copy, paste, and edit keyframes in After Effects, as well as add motion blur and work with parenting.
Excerpted from: After Effects CC Essential Training

Adobe Certified Expert and Trainer Barb Binder gives a solid 8 minute overview on how catalogs and designer menus are used in FrameMaker 11. Unlike Word, FrameMaker supports separate catalogs for paragraphs, character styles, table styles as well as graphic object styles. In this simple step-by-step session, Barb Binder covers the essentials on these powerful tools.

This animation/narrative explores a form of racism that the migrant community suffer from, yet not all of them are aware of. It identifies media as one of the tools used so stereotypical and degrading images are spread, and thus emphasizing that making media by our own hands is essential to counter it.

Find out what makes Adobe After Effects Next an essential upgrade for animators, compositors and designers. Jason Levine of Adobe and Mathias Omotola of Maxon show the new Live 3D Pipeline between Cinema 4D and After Effects. Other exciting features are the new Refine Edge that makes rotoscoping easier and the more flexible Warp Stabilizer VFX.

Adobe Creative Cloud lets you download essential CS6 design tools. Work faster thanks to performance boosts in Photoshop and Illustrator, easily repurpose layouts in InDesign, and speed up repetitive print production tasks with dozens of enhancements. Creative Cloud members automatically get access to new features as soon as they’re released – like the new package files and unembed images features in Illustrator. You can do it all and WW Design Evangelist Rufus Deuchler will demo all of the highlights for you.

The Adobe Youth Voices Lead Educator training brought together leadeducators from around the world representing the core leadership in the Adobe Youth Voices Network. During the training Lead Educators worked in teams tocreate short media clips on a range of topics meaningful to adult facilitators of youth media. In this clip, Message to Impact, team members explore ways in which to help youth search within themselves to create media with an impactful message in their own voices. The team members are:
· Elaine Socorro Cavalheiro (Brazil)
· Shan-Lee Liu (United States)
· Susan Dyer (United States)
· Joan Sweeney (Canada)
· Niranjan Meegammana (Sri Lanka)

The Adobe Youth Voices Lead Educator training brought together leadeducators from around the world representing the core leadership in the Adobe Youth Voices Network. During the training Lead Educators worked in teams tocreate short media clips on a range of topics meaningful to adult facilitators of youth media. In this clip, Amplified Voice, team members use realpeople and the phrase “I am a global citizen” to emphasize an educator’s responsibility to listen and provide the tools to amplify youth voice. The team members are:
· Martha Estrella (United States)
· Chris Lockwood (Mexico)
· George Lee (United States)
· Ariel Taylor (United States)

The Adobe Youth Voices Lead Educator training brought together leadeducators from around the world representing the core leadership in the Adobe Youth Voices Network. During the training Lead Educators worked in teams tocreate short media clips on a range of topics meaningful to adult facilitators of youth media. In this clip, Team Jeff, the protagonist presents some video production best practices to share with youth to ensure high quality work. The team members are:
· Daniel Richards (United Kingdom)
· Jeff Schmidt (United States)
· Courtney Gould (United States)
· Corey Stallings (United States)

The Adobe Youth Voices Lead Educator training brought together leadeducators from around the world representing the core leadership in the Adobe Youth Voices Network. During the training Lead Educators worked in teams tocreate short media clips on a range of topics meaningful to adult facilitators of youth media. In this clip, Blueprint for Creativity, team membersexplain the importance of pre-production and present ways on how to engage youth in the pre-production process. The team members are:
· Peter Moi (United States)
· Rachel Rosen (Canada)
· James Bell (Jamaica)
· Wendy-Frazier Snyder (United States)

The Adobe Youth Voices Lead Educator training brought together leadeducators from around the world representing the core leadership in the Adobe Youth Voices Network. During the training Lead Educators worked in teams tocreate short media clips on a range of topics meaningful to adult facilitators of youth media. In this clip, Own It, team members offer their insights on how to get youth to be fully invested in the AYV Program, be motivated to create authentic work, and to take ownership of their projects. The team members are:
· Regina Temple (United States)
· Symon Chibaka (Malawi)
· Oneisha Freeman (United States)
· Daniel Gutierrez (Uruguay)
· Hassan Shehawy (Egypt)

The Adobe Youth Voices Lead Educator training brought together lead educators from around the world representing the coreleadership in the Adobe Youth Voices Network. During the training Lead Educators worked in teams to create short media clips on a range of topics meaningful to adult facilitators of youth media. In this clip, Generating Ideas, team members discuss the challenges educators face when getting youth to select a specific idea with a focused message and a defined audience. The team members are:
· Allan Kakinda (Uganda)
· Todd Strother (United States)
· Dennis Martinus (Bonaire)
· Cristina Bosio Ferrer (Argentina)

In Adobe Youth Voices Essentials, educators can friend one another as a way to stay connected. This tutorial shows users how to find members in the Member Directory and adding them to your Friends List.

The Pen and Pencil tools are very useful but require a little practice to get comfortable with. In this video you'll get a chance to play around with these tools, using the Pen tool to create clouds and the Pencil tool to create hills.

In this episode, hear from Jason Levine, Adobe Worldwide Video Evangelist, about the Creative Cloud and all the new features in Adobe Production Premium CS6, the complete solution at the heart of any production workflow for video professionals. Packed with major updates to help bring high-quality productions to any screen, you’ll learn about new updates to familiar tools including powerful new versions of Adobe Premiere® Pro, After Effects®, Audition®, Adobe Story Plus, Media Encoder and Photoshop Extended, along with two new tools, SpeedGrade CS6 for professional color grading, and Prelude CS6, the world’s most elegant solution for the processes of ingest, logging and transcoding – essential tasks in a modern file-based workflow.

Demonstrating the power of technology to engage middle- and high school-age youth, Adobe Youth Voices provides breakthrough learning experiences using video, multimedia, digital art, web, animation, and audio tools that enable youth to explore and comment on their world.

In this episode, Julieanne Kost demonstrates how to streamline Lightroom 3’s Develop module by taking advantage of her top 10 favorite shortcuts & time-saving features in order to eliminate many of the repetitive image adjustment tasks when editing large volumes of images. Check out Julianne's blog for more shortcuts and tips! http://blogs.adobe.com/jkost

Understand what interaction design is and how the five essential principals of interaction design could help you make better interaction design decisions. This quick introduction will help you get started thinking about how to design your interfaces in the most effective way with the behavior of the user in mind.

See how the five essential principals of interaction design apply to the presentation and the delivery of text, and understand how people tend to view and consume text on a digital device. Then follow a quick exercise in Adobe Flash Catalyst to take a look at an example of creating a liquid layout.

In this final lesson, David wraps things up by teaching you how to effectively design interactions for forms and dialogs including ways to smoothly guide users through a good user experience using the same essential principals discussed in this series.

Photoshop is the most powerful image editing software in around so it stands to reason that it would be very useful in creating titles and graphics for a video production. Watch this inaugural episode of Premiere Pro Basics in Adobe Beginner Classes to get some of the essential skills necessary to become a productive editor.

Watch Jack Davis, award-winning author and Photoshop Hall-of-Famer, as he demonstrates essential techniques for using Photoshop CS5 to create great-looking images for the web and print. Learn techniques for making images look their best, fast, including everything from instant optimizing and enhancing of images to making Smart Filter recipes, custom actions, and tool presets. Davis's motto: If you do it once, figure out how to never have to do it again! Come learn powerful one-click solutions for on-time, on-budget design and photography.

Learn essential Photoshop CS5 skills to produce images that look great, load fast on the web, and work well in Flash Professional. We'll reveal optimization tools and techniques for making images look their best, while debunking web resolution myths. Discover easy techniques for correcting color and tone and recovering image detail. Learn how to enhance JPEG files using Camera Raw and how to control optimization settings for embedded bitmaps in Flash Professional. And, get tips for optimizing your workstation for fast performance. This session is a must for anyone who works with images for web and interactive design.

This week Mike is in a particularly aggressive mood. But its because wants everyone to be awesome using InDesign Shortcuts. This week Creative Sweet TV showcases the top ten essential shortcuts required to set type in InDesign. The shortcuts include, Soft returns, point size, leading, baseline shift, Indent to here, right indent tabs and the list goes on…

Learn essential techniques from one of the original pioneers in digital painting and a master at painting in Photoshop CS5. Watch as John Derry shows how to quickly and easily enhance your images with the new realistic painting tools in Photoshop CS5. See how you can transform your images and designs subtly or to the extreme to get amazing results. You'll walk away knowing killer tips and tricks along with new painting ideas that are sure to add to your Photoshop skills.

Explore essential plug-ins and tools that every developer should add to their Adobe Flash Builder installation. In addition to covering configuration of the plug-ins, we'll explore how to use them as part of a workflow for rapid development of Flex and ActionScript applications. By attending this session, you'll learn how to save development time and increase your productivity.

Learn how to shoot better quality video by recording better audio in the field. Discover which microphones, tools, and techniques are best for shooting events or interview footage with your DSLR camera. Find out how to synch your audio and video in Adobe Premiere Pro as well as edit or remove background noise.

Learn the essential settings for lighting and exposure when shooting with DSLR cameras. Find out which lighting tools are available and the benefits of three-point lighting, filters and reflectors. You’ll also discover how to fix lighting problems in DSLR footage using Adobe Premiere Pro.

If you want to be a pro at using Adobe Illustrator you need to know these essential tips. These are my absolute favorite and most used tips and shortcuts. Pay close attention because there a quite a few. Drawing tips duplicating tips pen tool tips and coloring shortcuts.

This short video answers the question “What is Lightroom?” for new users of the tool. Lightroom unites your digital photography essentials in one fast and intuitive package and gets you there with the tools you need to create great images, manage all your photographs, and showcase them with style and impact.

A glimpse of what it would be like to be homeless through this collection of photos. Youth artist: Liam Spero, Modeling: Brandi Langille, Editing: Barbara Alexander. Site: Rideau High School Ottawa, Canada

With a video camera in their hands, young people can realize the power of their own voice and recognize the clarity of their own vision. Video lets them tell their own stories, express their own views and opinions, and interpret the world.

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Online, your portfolio is all you've got to mediate your talent. Get essential ingredients, quick steps, check list, do's and dont's to help self-promote efficiently and kick your butt into gear to build a strong presence that brings in the money.

Learn the must-have skills for working with Photoshop and digital images, including color correction, masking, image restoration, and retouching. Terry White will answer the most frequently asked questions on working with digital images and more.

Learn essential skills for using Photoshop CS4 to produce images that look great and load fast for the web and for use with Flash Professional. We'll reveal hidden optimization tools and quick techniques for making images look their best, and more.

Looking for something dynamic and new for your After Effects work? In this second of a four part series, Dennis shows the essential techniques to have elements come together in smokey bits again with no third party effects.

View a preview of the innovative new Learn by Video series, a complete training program that includes up to 19 hours of high-quality video instruction and is the official training curriculum for the Adobe Certified Associate exam.

Join Michael Ninness as he shows us how to get the inside scoop on using Photoshop CS4 to deliver images that look great and load fast for the web and interactive experiences built with Flash CS4 Professional.